“There's a man behind the curtain. But don't worry about it.”

 

“The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.”

"live your life as if you may lose everything."
— Mary Higgins Clark (All Through the Night)

"When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book."
— Mary Higgins Clark

"Exposed to the world for what she was; numbed with worry and fear; trying to answer the question... The same question the police had thrown at her over and over seven years ago.....Where are the Children?"
— Mary Higgins Clark (Where Are the Children?)

 

“Now, children, go to sleep. I don't want you to worry when you hear the creaking on the stairs. The ghost promised he wouldn't show up tonight.”